_First Day_ of Journey--Start from the Revere House--Escorted to Brighton by G. A. R. Comrades--Dinner at Cattle Fair Hotel--South Framingham--_Second Day_--Boston and Albany Turnpike--Riding in a Rain-storm--Arrival at Worcester--Lecture in Opera House--Pioneer History--Rapid Growth of Worcester--Lincoln Park--The Old Common--_Third and Fourth Days_--The Ride to Springfield--Met by Wife and Daughter--Lecture at Haynes Opera House--_Fifth Day_--Ride to Russell--The Berkshire Hills--_Sixth Day_--Journey to Becket--Rainbow Reflections--_Seventh Day_--Over the Hoosac Mountains--_Eighth Day_--Arrival at Pittsfield--Among the Lebanon Shakers--_Ninth Day_--Reach Nassau, New York 81 CHAPTER V. FOUR DAYS AT ALBANY. Nassau to Albany--Among Old Friends in Rensselaer County--Thoughts of Rip Van Winkle--Crossing the Hudson--Albany as Seen from the River--Schoolday Associations--Early History--Settled by the Dutch--Henry Hudson--Killian Van Rensselaer--Fort Orange--Peter Schuyler and Robert Livingstone--Lecture at Tweddle Hall--Call at the Capitol--Meet Army Comrades. 110 CHAPTER VI. ALBANY TO SYRACUSE. _Fourteenth Day_--On the Schenectady Turnpike--Riding between Showers--Talk with Peter Lansing--Reach Schenectady--Lecture at Union Hall under G. A. R. Auspices--_Fifteenth and Sixteenth Days_--Go over to Troy--Lecture at Harmony Hall--Visit Old Friends--_Seventeenth Day_--Return to Schenectady--_Eighteenth Day_--In the Mohawk Valley--Halt at Amsterdam--Reach Fonda-- _Nineteenth Day_--Saint Johnsville--_Twentieth Day_--Little Falls--_Twenty-first Day_--Utica--_Twenty-second Day_--Rome-- _Twenty-third Day_--Chittenango 118 CHAPTER VII. TWO DAYS AT SYRACUSE. Walks and Talks with the People--Early History--Lake Onondaga-- Father Le Moyne--Discovery of Salt Springs--Major Danforth--Joshua Forman--James Geddes--The Erie Canal--Visit of La Fayette--Syracuse University--Lecture at Shakespeare Hall. 132 CHAPTER VIII. SYRACUSE TO ROCHESTER. _Twenty-sixth Day_--Grand Army Friends--General Sniper--Captain Auer--Stopped by a Thunder-shower--An Unpleasant Predicament-- _Twenty-Seventh Day_--Jordan, New York--Lake Skaneateles-- _Twenty-eighth Day_--Photographed--Entertained at Port Byron--Montezuma Swamp--_Twenty-ninth Day_--Newark, New York--Journey Continued Along the New York Central Railway--Another Adventure with _Paul_--_Thirtieth Day_--Fairport--Riding in the Cool of the Day 141 CHAPTER IX. FOUR DAYS AT ROCHESTER.